All students are to follow the below timetable to enable them to submit/complete their TOK essay on time.
For all deadlines you must upload the work using this template.
Put your name and a file description on every file you upload as that way 2 files with the same name will not be uploaded. i.e. if everyone uploaded a file called Ideassofar.doc your work would not be on your page as there would be two files with this name on the Wikispaces server. Follow this naming convention to avoid problems
yournamefiledescription
ShaneOLoughlinChosnetok.doc
ShaneOloughlinideassofar.doc
ShaneOloughlinplan.doc
ShaneOLoughlin1stdraft.doc etc etc
"That which can be asserted without
evidence can be dissmissed without evidence."
(Christopher Hitchens). Do you agree?
Are claims only truthful if they are backed up by evidence?
Stuff to further consider:
Reason: Ten deadly fallacies: Ad ignorantiam : saying something is true just cause it can't be proven wrong (Religion), however do consider that it is morally accepted in the case of religion (e.g.Senator Joe McCarthy: There is nothign to say he is not a communist)
AOK: Religion, Human Sciences, Mathematics
(These are the relevant ones i want to focus on.)
WOK: Reason, Emotion(in terms with religion)
Why: Because i agree with the statement, Without evidence things can be dismissed, atleast as far as saying they aren't 100% correct, nonetheless this doesn't make certain knowledge false. e.g. Proof of god(religion), there is no evidence and so it can be dismissed, nonetheless the existence of god is not false either, it's just not proven or has no evidence backing it up. Economic theories(Human Sciences) are not all backed up by evidence and are not 100% correct, nonetheless we still use them because they're as close to the truth as we can get. Cosine rule(Mathematics) has evidence backing it up and so it is an example where a claim can't be dismissed.
Without evidence people are entitled to dismiss claims and make their own judgement as to whether or not the claim is true or false. With evidence this is not the case, if a claim is backed up by evidence then it can't be dismissed.
All students are to follow the below timetable to enable them to submit/complete their TOK essay on time.
For all deadlines you must upload the work using this template.
Put your name and a file description on every file you upload as that way 2 files with the same name will not be uploaded. i.e. if everyone uploaded a file called Ideassofar.doc your work would not be on your page as there would be two files with this name on the Wikispaces server. Follow this naming convention to avoid problems
yournamefiledescription
ShaneOLoughlinChosnetok.doc
ShaneOloughlinideassofar.doc
ShaneOloughlinplan.doc
ShaneOLoughlin1stdraft.doc etc etc
Student Name
20 September
Chosen TOK essay and why
8th October
Ideas so far
29th Oct
Outline/Plan
7st January
1st Draft
1st February
2nd Draft
25th Feb
Final
evidence can be dissmissed without evidence."
(Christopher Hitchens). Do you agree?
Are claims only truthful if they are backed up by evidence?
Reason: Ten deadly fallacies: Ad ignorantiam : saying something is true just cause it can't be proven wrong (Religion), however do consider that it is morally accepted in the case of religion (e.g.Senator Joe McCarthy: There is nothign to say he is not a communist)
(These are the relevant ones i want to focus on.)
Without evidence people are entitled to dismiss claims and make their own judgement as to whether or not the claim is true or false. With evidence this is not the case, if a claim is backed up by evidence then it can't be dismissed.
Reason: Through reason we can determine which claims can be dismissed and which can't.
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http://www.toktalk.net/2009/10/31/what-are-knowledge-issues-or-problems-of-knowledge/